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Welcome to Escape2stamp! Today, the Stamp Review Crew is holding a blog hop featuring the Stampin' Up! stamp set, Pop of Paradise. This fun set has a tropical vibe and is so useful for all sorts of projects. I hope you'll take the time to bump through the hop and enjoy the projects we have created for your inspiration!

As much as I have played with this set, I hadn't really thought to try watercolor. So for this thank you card, I taped down a piece of watercolor and gave it a quick background wash with Pear Pizzazz ink then tapped some additional drops of Old Olive and Mossy Meadow. While it was still damp, I lightly stamped the pineapple which had been colored in with Pear Pizzazz and Crushed Curry.

Now, the funny part…? I didn't realize until just this moment that I painted the crown in Curry and the body of the fruit in Pear. Wow. Well, let's just skip over that and look at the pretty curved leaves and banner. Both were stamped using the Stamparatus (stamp posit…

The ladies over at Just Add Ink posted a challenge to use the letter "O". It could be to use orange, olive, ombre - anything with an O. I recently (finally!) bought the Message In a Bottle stamp set (Stampin' Up!) and thought I would use the fun little octopus to send someone a greeting. How's that for timing :)

Please excuse me for not editing the photo. My computer is not cooperating so I just inserted a photo using my phone. I hope the card is cute enough to compensate 😉

At our monthly Club Meeting today, we will be creating a card using the always popular stamp set Lovely As A Tree. I chose this stamp set in my starter kit almost nine years ago and am happy to say that it is still available and still lovely. This card was inspired by a direct-to-paper technique demonstrated by Michelle Zindorf at this year's convention (officially called Inspire. Create. Share).

For more ideas using this stamp set, you'll want to check out The Stamp Review Crew blog hop featuring this set. Many of the projects shared on the hop are projects that were shared at the recent Stampin' Up! convention. Our Crew was selected to share projects on an idea board; we chose to share projects using only Lovely As A Tree (a classic favorite) and Flower Patch (a new favorite). The blog hop for Flower Patch will take place this coming Monday (July 28). Rescheduled for Monday, August 4th.